AT News KABUL: The Taliban claims to have captured five districts across Afghanistan but the government officials denied it, expressing ambiguity over the collapse of the districts. The insurgents’ spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid said that Chak and Sayedabad districts of central Wadak fall to them. At least 39 Afghan security forces …
Read More »Dostum urges soldiers to fight Taliban ‘tooth and nail’
AT News KABUL: Amid worsening security situation in northern Afghanistan, former Vice President Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum has urged his soldiers and supporters to fight the Taliban fiercely and stop them from invading more territory. Enayatullah Babar Farahmand, deputy chief of the High Council of National Reconciliation, in a tweet …
Read More »Over 190 Taliban killed in Afghan raids
AT News KABUL: At least 193 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 110 others wounded during a series of military operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said on Sunday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan …
Read More »Karzai saddened by national trader’s death
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed condolences over the death of Hajji Abdul Qader also known as Hajji Qandil Boy. In a statement issued Saturday, Karzai called Hajji Qader as a patriotic man who served for the welfare of people especially in improvement of agriculture and carpet weaving …
Read More »Virus cases slightly decline, but oxygen crisis still unabated
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has seen a significant decline in new coronavirus cases over the past day, as health officials say daily virus cases dropped to 1,095 on Saturday. But minister of health has said that hospitals are still facing an acute shortage of oxygen supplies which is making it …
Read More »GAAC donates food to IDPs
AT News KABUL: GAAC has distributed food rations to 500 families who are displaced due to ongoing conflicts in Ghazni, Bamyan, and Maidan Wardak provinces under leadership of Mustafa Shahab, Deputy Director of German Aid for Afghan Children. These people are destitute and living in abject poverty. GAAC is extending …
Read More »Over 250 Taliban killed as Afghan forces ramp up
AT News KABUL: At least 250 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 137 have been severely injured in military raids by Afghan armed forces across the war-battered country since Friday, the Defense Ministry said Saturday – the latest in a string of counterstrikes against belligerent Taliban attacks that have disrupted …
Read More »Army repels rebel attack in Samangan
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s armed forces have repelled a full-blown Taliban attack on a key district in northern Samangan province and killed a handful of insurgents and foiling their longstanding plan to capture the district centre. District Chief Haji Fazlullah on Saturday said Taliban insurgents had staged a full-scale dawn …
Read More »Afghanistan records 1,575 new virus cases, 86 deaths
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,575 new cases of coronavirus and 86 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours. The new cases come positive out of 5,096 suspected samples during the same period of time, according to the health ministry’s data. The …
Read More »Government mobilizing, arming people against Taliban
AT News KABUL: The government officials say they would arm and support those people who want to fight Taliban. Naqibullah Fayeq, the newly-appointed deputy interior minister, who is in Mazar-e-Sharif, a strategic city in the north to evaluate the security situation, said Wednesday that Kabul would support public mobilization against …
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